Lieutenant Colonel P Adams CB TD

Commanded 7^th (Southwark) Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment from 18^th February 1938 to September 1939 and the 1/7^th Battalion from September 1939 to February 1940.
Paul Adams was born on 16^th March 1903 and educated at Haileybury.

On 18^th January 1922 he was commissioned in 24^th London Regiment (later renamed 7^th (Southwark) Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment.

On 18^th February 1938 he succeeded his brother Donovan Guy Adams* in command of the Battalion and on the doubling of the Territorial Army in 1939 was appointed to command the 1/7^th Battalion. In February 1940, at his own request, he reverted to the rank of major and became the second-in-command of the Battalion and served with it in France.

In 1941 he was appointed in succession to command the 15^th and 13^th Battalions and then 2^nd Bn The Lincolnshire Regiment. In November 1943 he was appointed to command the 13^th Infantry Battalion of the Sudan Defence Force.

He was demobilised in 1946 and in the following year was appointed to raise and command 622^nd (Queen's) HAA Regiment. RA (TA), but after a few weeks had to resign owing to civilian commitments.

He was a solicitor and for his work on various committees including the Legal Aid Advisory Committee was made a CB in 1971.

He died on 10^th December 1972.

For obituary see The Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association Newsletter No 13 May 1973 page 15.

See also J M A Tamplin's The Lambeth and Southwark Volunteers page 247. *Donovan Guy Adams also commanded 2/6^th Bn The East Surrey Regiment in France in 1940.

 

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